64 Funny, Inspiring and Stupid Money Quotes From Famous People

People love quoting famous people. Whether the celebrity in question is a genius or not, we love a good sound byte. We've collected quotes from presidents, movie stars, philosophers, athletes, and even Paris Hilton on everybody's favorite topic: Money. (See also: How Money Can Destroy Your Dreams)

1. "Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise." - Benjamin Franklin

16. "If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some." - Benjamin Franklin

17. "Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." - Rebecca Johnson

18. "Lack of money is the root of all evil." - George Bernard Shaw

19. "The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last." - Evan Esar

20. "What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us." - Julia Cameron

21. "Money is usually attracted, not pursued." - Jim Rohn

22. "The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket." - Kin Hubbard

23. "Money will come when you are doing the right thing." - Mike Phillips

24. "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." - H. L. Mencken

25. "You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal." - Johnny Depp

26. "It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed." - Kin Hubbard

27. "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope

28. "What's a soup kitchen?" - Paris Hilton

29. "The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any." - Katharine Whitehorn

30. "The art is not in making money, but in keeping it." - Proverb

31. "Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money." - Robin Williams

32. "Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears." - Robert W. Sarnoff

33. "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." - Will Smith

34. "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." - Donald Trump

35. "You don't have to die in order to make a living." - Lynn Johnston

36. "I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money." - David Lee Roth

37. "The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money." - IRS auditor

38. "Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man." - Kahlil Gibran

39. "So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" - Ayn Rand

40. "Dogs have no money. Isn't that amazing? They're broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No Pockets." - Jerry Seinfeld

41. "Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be." - Rita Rudner

42. "The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." - Sir Henry Taylor

43. "Money is the best deodorant." - Elizabeth Taylor

44. "Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver." - Ayn Rand

45. "I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with." - Rodney Dangerfield

46. "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." - Jonathan Swift

47. "He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days." - Anonymous

48. "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." - Oscar Wilde

49. "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." - Yogi Berra

50. "Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil." - Henry Fielding

51. "When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." - Oscar Wilde

52. "Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one." - Benjamin Franklin

Great post Glen
I actually BLOG about Quotes, with a different spin. Each of us can have a different interpretation of the quote and its fascinating when reading what others thought,on top of the quote... where it takes YOUR MIND.

#19.. this actually has a Double meaning in it to me( hang on to it, make it and keep it,)

#29 is so true.. kids don't understand the value of a dollar, until you can't give them any to buy what they want. They learn really fast!

#33.. how many people are trying to impress others..Will Smith is right on, in my opinion. Talk about keeping up with the Joneses( and Smiths)

#57.. actually most dogs will wag their tails regardless,but its because they are full of LOVE anyway. I get the writers point!

"Money itself is not inherently evil. Money merely magnifies that which is in the heart. If you are greedy, your spending habits will show that, and if you are generous, then your constant giving will show that as well." -Muhammed al-Shareef

Very good quotes!
My favorite is the one from Will Smith: "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
And also this one: "It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." - George Lorimer (too many people lost their friends, their love and they families just because of their work.)

#33 is a quote by Will Rogers. Just because celebrates use others quotes doesn't mean they should get credit for them. Maybe you should do a little more fact checking before posting something like this, I'm sure there are a lot more mistakes like this.

Hard to believe that Ayn Rand gets things so wrong and yet is so widely quoted. She says that money "will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver." Yet for many people, money does drive their lives. They're like alcoholics whose pursuit of the drug is all consuming. See Franklin's quote #52.

Also, Rand says, "Money is the barometer of a society's true virtue." It may be the barometer of a society's priorities, as Frick points out in #60, but a society's virtue is measured by its compassion.